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Author: J. K. Jordan Publisher: ISBN: 9781696389242 Category : Languages : en Pages : 220
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It is 2076. As the nation prepares to celebrate its tricentennial, it is a much different country than it was at the beginning of the century. After years of domestic and international struggle, Americans have given up their freedoms to the Equality Party. The Party has radically changed American society by redistributing wealth, attacking religion, and forcing ordinary Americans to conform to policies that seek to create economic, social, and political equality. Those who do not conform face reeducation, imprisonment, or worse. In an epic struggle to regain the lost freedoms Americans once enjoyed, The Underground fights back. Two unlikely allies, a middle-aged Party bureaucrat, and a young woman who has been fighting against The Party her entire life, join forces to help return the United States to democratic government. Will they survive? Will the nation that changed the world ever become what it once was?
Author: J. K. Jordan Publisher: ISBN: 9781696389242 Category : Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
It is 2076. As the nation prepares to celebrate its tricentennial, it is a much different country than it was at the beginning of the century. After years of domestic and international struggle, Americans have given up their freedoms to the Equality Party. The Party has radically changed American society by redistributing wealth, attacking religion, and forcing ordinary Americans to conform to policies that seek to create economic, social, and political equality. Those who do not conform face reeducation, imprisonment, or worse. In an epic struggle to regain the lost freedoms Americans once enjoyed, The Underground fights back. Two unlikely allies, a middle-aged Party bureaucrat, and a young woman who has been fighting against The Party her entire life, join forces to help return the United States to democratic government. Will they survive? Will the nation that changed the world ever become what it once was?
Author: Char Miller Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1625110510 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 239
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This is the first general history of San Antonio, Texas, the seventh largest city in the nation. Its past is complex and ranges across 300 years, from the community’s origins as a tiny Spanish frontier town to its contemporary status as a vital American mega-city. Site of some of the most violent struggles between warring empires and people—historians believe San Antonio may be the most fought-over city in U.S. history—it is perhaps most celebrated for the iconic 1836 Battle of the Alamo. The city is also home to four beautifully restored Spanish missions, which in 2015 UNESCO designated a World Heritage Site and have become integral to San Antonio’s robust tourist economy along with the fabled River Walk. This study weaves together a series of environmental, social, political, and cultural pressures that have shaped life in the Alamo City over the last three centuries. Residents have long fought to protect and utilize water and other resources even as they have struggled to achieve equal rights and build a more open and democratic society. Activists from all sectors of this multicultural city have believed deeply in its promise even though they have had to push hard to secure and expand its potential. Their efforts were every bit as intense in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as they have been in the twenty-first. Written for a general audience, but with a scholarly attention to detail and nuance, San Antonio: A Tricentennial History immerses readers in the city’s fascinating and fraught past.
Author: Carole Emberton Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 0807166030 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 305
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Academic studies of the Civil War and historical memory abound, ensuring a deeper understanding of how the war’s meaning has shifted over time and the implications of those changes for concepts of race, citizenship, and nationhood. The Reconstruction era, by contrast, has yet to receive similar attention from scholars. Remembering Reconstruction ably fills this void, assembling a prestigious lineup of Reconstruction historians to examine the competing social and historical memories of this pivotal and violent period in American history. Many consider the period from 1863 (beginning with slave emancipation) to 1877 (when the last federal troops were withdrawn from South Carolina and Louisiana) an “unfinished revolution” for civil rights, racial-identity formation, and social reform. Despite the cataclysmic aftermath of the war, the memory of Reconstruction in American consciousness and its impact on the country’s fraught history of identity, race, and reparation has been largely neglected. The essays in Remembering Reconstruction advance and broaden our perceptions of the complex revisions in the nation's collective memory. Notably, the authors uncover the impetus behind the creation of black counter-memories of Reconstruction and the narrative of the “tragic era” that dominated white memory of the period. Furthermore, by questioning how Americans have remembered Reconstruction and how those memories have shaped the nation's social and political history throughout the twentieth century, this volume places memory at the heart of historical inquiry.
Author: Nancy Dixon Publisher: ISBN: 9780692941928 Category : New Orleans (La.) Languages : en Pages : 232
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Since its foundation in 1718, New Orleans has captured the imagination of people from around the world. Exiled immigrants, creative dreamers, fiery revolutionaries, and joyful vacationers journey to the city to experience its intoxicating mixture of cultures. The Crescent City is both cosmopolitan and distinctly American, a gumbo pot filled with ingredients from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe that feeds new arrivals from every corner of the earth. New Orleans & The World: The Tricentennial Anthology commemorates the city¿s 300th anniversary by exploring the roles New Orleans has played on the global stage, and the ways that events and people from outside the city have fundamentally shaped its dynamic culture.
Author: Mitch Landrieu Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525559469 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 242
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The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us and argues for white America to reckon with its past. A passionate, personal, urgent book from the man who sparked a national debate. "There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence for it." When Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of New Orleans in May 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, including the statue of Robert E. Lee, he struck a nerve nationally, and his speech has now been heard or seen by millions across the country. In his first book, Mayor Landrieu discusses his personal journey on race as well as the path he took to making the decision to remove the monuments, tackles the broader history of slavery, race and institutional inequities that still bedevil America, and traces his personal relationship to this history. His father, as state legislator and mayor, was a huge force in the integration of New Orleans in the 1960s and 19070s. Landrieu grew up with a progressive education in one of the nation's most racially divided cities, but even he had to relearn Southern history as it really happened. Equal parts unblinking memoir, history, and prescription for finally confronting America's most painful legacy, In the Shadow of Statues contributes strongly to the national conversation about race in the age of Donald Trump, at a time when racism is resurgent with seemingly tacit approval from the highest levels of government and when too many Americans have a misplaced nostalgia for a time and place that never existed.
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